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At Dulwich, William Hucks, efq. in the 
730 year of his age. 
At Newington Butts, Jof. L. Clark, efq. 
many years in the accountant’s-office of the 
. Eatt India Company. 
At Woodbridge-houfe, near Guildford, 
Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Creufe, wife of John 
‘Creufe, efq.— James Bourdieu, efq of 
Coombe, near Croydon, in the goth year of 
his age. 
At Malta, John Locke, efg. late of Nor- 
bury Park, in this county, who had been 
appointed Conful-General in Egypt and the 
Mediterranean. Mr. Locke was diftinguifh- 
ed for his tafte and attainments in every 
branch of polite literature: the learned 
world confequently anticipated much grati- 
fication from his refearches in that intereft- 
ing country, where he had obtained an ap- 
pointment to forward his favourite purfuits. 
He had vifited the plains of Troy, and was 
feized with a fever, occafioned by the ex- 
€eflive fatigues of that expedition; the fever 
had left him, but he was fo debilitated that 
he died ten days after landing at Malta, 
without fpeaking in the interval: the fer- 
vant who accompanied him died of the fame 
diforder, 
SUSSEX. 
From the great advantage which would 
be derived to the trade, as well as fecurity to 
the country againft invafion, by a fafe har- 
bour for king's fhips, about midway between 
Portimouth and the Downs, we underftand, 
it is in contemplation to render the harbour 
at Newhaven proper for that purpofe; and 
that in the opinion of an eminent engineer, 
the fcheme is very practicable at a compa- 
yatively moderate expence. The means re- 
commended by this gentleman, are the fink- 
ing a great number of large ftones from the 
neighbouring cliff, confiderably further out 
at fea than the piers, and thereby create an 
immenfe, immoveable, artificial rock. ~ 
Married.j At Ratton, the Rev. C. B. 
Ponfonby Lowther, of Manningford, Wilts, 
to Mifs Eliza Callbeck, niece to Rear-Ad- 
miral Sir Ifaac Coffin. 
Died.| At Roberttbridge, 
Jennings, aged 1¢1 years. 
At Horfham, Mr. Littlejohn, officer of 
excife. Going to the brewhoufe of Mr, 
Thornton to make his accuftomed furvey, he 
fell into a veffel containing about fixteen 
barrels of beer, being fuffecated, as it is fup- 
pofed, while leaning over it, by the azotic 
g2s arifing from the fermenting liquor. 
At Brighton, Humphry Donaldfon, efg. 
army-agent, of Whitehall, London.—The 
complacency of his manners, the active benig- 
nity of his’ heart, and the fcrupulous fidelity 
with which he difcharged the honourable truft 
repofed in him by the many regiments of 
which he was the agent, will long be re- 
membered with the moft lively intereft. He 
had net an acquaintance who did not affec- 
tionately love him, fiace, from the natural 
Mrs. Sarah 
Suffexe 
ever engaged in doing the offices of kind- 
nefs to all around him. It was the irkfome 
confequence of this generous temper, that 
he was marked out and chofen by his in- 
timates as their executor, their arbitrator, 
their truftee, or their agent; ‘and in dif- 
charge of thofe often ill-requited duties, in 
the midft of his own large concerns, no man 
ever acquitted himfelf with a more pure, 
difinterefted, and indefatigable attention. His 
unfemitting devotion to bufinefs had fenfibty 
impaired his health, when, about a year ago, 
‘he yielded to the intreaties of his friends. ° 
and purchafed a {mall eftate near Kingfton 
with the defign of relaxing at times from tlie 
fatigues of his office, through the afitftance 
of his fon, who now fucceeds him. He has 
lived but a few months to enjoy the com- 
petence he had fo honourably acquired. He 
has left but one fon by his amiable and af- 
flifted wife, to whom, as well as to every 
friend and relative, his lofs is irreparable.—- 
Mifs D’Qyley, only daughter of the Rev. 
Mr. D’Oyley, of Buxted- place. 
_ At Wakehurft place, aged $0, Jofeph 
Peyton, efy. admiral of the white —Admiral 
Peyton was the fon of Commodore Peyton, 
who, in the year 1746, fucceeded Commodore 
Barnet in the.command of the Britith fqua- 
dron in the Eaft Indies. In 1743, he was 
appointed lieutenant of the Effex, by Admiral 
Matchews, at that time commander in chief 
in the Mediterranean. Here he was prefent 
in the engagement which took place on the 
rith of February the following year, with the 
combined -French and Spanifh fleets, off Tou- 
lon; and was one of the witneffes at the fub- 
fequent trials of feveral of the captains who 
mifbehaved on that occafion. In 1750 he was 
promoted to the rank of mafter and com- 
mander, and appointed to the Savage floop; 
and tn 1757 was promoted to the command of 
tae Prince George, of 90 guns, which fhip 
carried the flag of Admiral Broderick, who 
was fent to fucceed Admiral Ofborn in the 
Mediterranean ftation. On the paflage to 
Gibraltar the fhip took fire, and notwith- 
ftanding the exertions of the captain, his offi- 
cers, and crew, the flames raged with fuch 
fury as to baffle all their attempts to extin- 
guith them. Out of her crew, which con- 
fitted of 745 perfons, only the Rear-admiral, 
Captain Peyton, and 260 more, were faved, 
‘Yhe captain was taken bya boat from the 
ftern-ladder,. and put on board the Alderney 
floop. He then proceeded with Admiral Bro- 
derick to the Mediterranean; on which ftation, 
and in the Channel, he ferved during the re- 
mainder of the war, {n 1768 he was appointed 
to the Belleifle, of 64 guns, a guard-fhip, 
ftationed at Plymouth; and on the appre- 
hended rupture with Spain, relative to the 
Faikland iflands, he was removed to the Me-. 
defte, of the fame force. In 1778 he was 
nominated to the command of the Cumber- 
jand, of 74 guns, one of the thips of Admiral 
Keppel’s 
- (Dec. 1, - 
‘fimplicity and gentlenefs of his fpirit, he wag 
